Rutgers football is not good at, well, football. There are not too many new ways to say this. They try hard, but as a unit, the end result is not very strong, as evidenced by their 1-6 record that includes a 55-14 loss to Kansas.
That doesn’t mean their season is without highlights, though! And one of those highlights, perhaps the season highlight, came on Saturday thanks to a record-setting punt. Trailing 7-0 to Northwestern early in the second quarter, Rutgers punter Adam Korsak came in to boot it away.
Rugby-style punters are an extremely college football thing, and often the run-and-punt style is more about accuracy than distance. But when Northwestern’s kick returner declined to catch the punt, letting it go over his head, the fate of the punt was left to physics and the kicking deities that rule this universe.
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And, lo, did they reward Rutgers for a season where the punter has often been the most valuable person on the roster. Korsak’s punt went a whopping 79 yards, bouncing out of play around the Northwestern six. It went out on its own, too! Korsak didn’t even need a hands team to down it for him. He flipped the field all his own with that bad boy. It’s good enough for a school record, which is saying something for a program that has had its fair share of punts over the years.
Three members of the Uproxx Sports staff are involved in a punters-only fantasy football league, and so take it from us when we say that is a tremendous (and tremendously valuable) punt. So congratulations to Adam Korsak, your punt just made the season highlight package sure to hit YouTube sometime in December.
